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Webster 1913 Edition


Cockshut

Cock′shutˊ

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Noun.
A kind of net to catch woodcock.
[Obs.]
Nares.
Cockshut time
or
Cockshut light
,
evening twilight; nightfall; – so called in allusion to the tome at which the cockshut used to be spread.
[Obs.]
Shak. B. Jonson.

Webster 1828 Edition


Cockshut

COCKSHUT

,
Noun.
The close of the day, when fowls go to roost.